CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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A 246 km round trip from Eisleben Lutherstadt - roughly 3 h 29 in the saddle. The stops in between: Collegiate Church, Mines of Rammelsberg and Historic Town of and back through Collegiate Church. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 67 km this is German Timber Frame Road Central Section, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Martin Luther was born in Eisleben in November 1483 and died there in February 1546, which is either a neat symmetry or a joke the town has never tired of telling. He had travelled to his hometown in the winter of 1546 to settle a quarrel between the counts of Mansfeld, and he fell ill and died in a house near the market square after a few days. The building is now a museum, and the Sterbehaus, the house in which he died, holds items from the last days of his life, with a room where he is believed to have breathed his last. His birth house is a few minutes' walk away, and both are on the UNESCO list.
Read the complete The house in which Luther died write-up.
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The house in which Luther died is where the day begins. Next is Collegiate Church.
High on a rock above Quedlinburg stands the Collegiate Church of St Servatius, a heavy Romanesque church that is one of the most important of its kind in Germany. The first church on the hill was connected to the Ottonian kings, and Henry the Fowler, the first king of the East Frankish realm in the early tenth century, was buried here. His widow Mathilda founded a convent of noblewomen on the site, which became powerful, with abbesses who were often relatives of the emperors and ran a small state of their own.
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Collegiate Church comes up about 57 km into the recorded legs. Next is Mines of Rammelsberg and Historic Town of.
Goslar is a small city at the northern edge of the Harz, and it is hard to overstate how much money and power sat here in the Middle Ages. The Rammelsberg hill, just south of the town, held a vast body of silver, lead, copper and zinc ore, and mining went on for about a thousand years, until the mine closed in 1988. The Ottonian and Salian emperors built their palace in Goslar because the silver paid for it. The imperial palace, the Kaiserpfalz, still stands in a big, over-restored form on the edge of the old town. UNESCO listed the mine and the old town together in 1992, and in 2010 the Upper Harz water system was added to the same site.
Read the complete Mines of Rammelsberg and Historic Town of write-up.
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about 124 km into the recorded legs you reach Mines of Rammelsberg and Historic Town of. Next is back through Collegiate Church.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Collegiate Church write-up.
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back through Collegiate Church, late in the day. Next is The house in which Luther died.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The house in which Luther died write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at The house in which Luther died. That is the ride.
The house in which Luther died → Collegiate Church is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Collegiate Church → Mines of Rammelsberg and Historic Town of is 67 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Mines of Rammelsberg and Historic Town of → back through Collegiate Church is 66 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Collegiate Church → The house in which Luther died is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.